First, the abuse of Fang Yan and her child was exposed, then the use of Zhang Jizhou as a money-making tool was exposed, and now they are colluding with people from other villages to hide Xiao Yuzai and lure Fang Yan to Lion Roar Ridge, attempting to kill Fang Yan there.
When the first two incidents were first exposed, Zhang Laowu and Huang Hongmei were already so unpopular in the village that even the rats in the stinking ditch didn't want to associate with them.
However, there are always some people who are even more detestable than rats in a ditch, yet they still maintain contact with Zhang Laowu and his group, and their relationship has even improved.
For example, the Zhang family.
Ever since Fang Yan refused to lend them money, they have harbored resentment towards her and silently cursed her, wishing for her to suffer an increasingly miserable life.
Anyway, they're happy as long as Fang Yan's life gets worse and worse; they don't care how Zhang Laowu and Huang Hongmei treat Fang Yan.
However, once it came to light that Zhang Laowu and Huang Hongmei had colluded with people from other villages to harm children, even the most despised people, like the Zhang family, took the initiative to distance themselves from Zhang Laowu and his group.
Colluding with people from other villages to bully the people of our own village—in the words of Gou Village, that's being a traitor!
Furthermore, Zhang Laowu and Huang Hongmei actually colluded with people from other villages to hide Xiaoyuzai.
What are you doing hiding?
Isn't the plan just to wait until no one is paying attention, then secretly sell it?
Old Zhang's family also has grandchildren, and they are afraid that the closer they get to Zhang Laowu and Huang Hongmei, the more likely they are to become his targets.
If Zhang Laowu and his gang could even harm their own grandsons, they couldn't possibly expect Zhang Laowu and Huang Hongmei to spare their children out of consideration for their fellow villagers.
Therefore, they had no choice but to sever ties with Zhang Laowu and his gang, and repeatedly told their children that even if they encountered Zhang Laowu and his gang on the road, they should stay far away from them and not run into them.
For a time, Zhang Laowu and his family became a menace that the entire village avoided like the plague.
The first one to lose it was the chubby boy, because none of his friends would play with him anymore.
The chubby boy had a bad temper and liked to curse and hit people at the drop of a hat, so not many children liked to play with him.
This child, who was inherently corrupt, used every method he could think of to threaten other children into playing with him.
Now, those children are all kept at home by their parents, who have repeatedly told them not to play with the chubby boy anymore.
"I don't care, I order you all to make them play with me, or I'll kill you!"
After going out for a walk, and finding no one to play with, the chubby boy started throwing a tantrum as soon as he got home, ordering everyone in the house around.
A child not even ten years old could say things like "I'll kill you" so easily, yet Huang Hongmei didn't find anything wrong with it. She still doted on and protected him like a precious treasure, cursing under her breath, "Those kids who died young, they don't play with you, they'll all get struck by lightning someday. Come on, Mom will take you to settle accounts with them!"
Tsk tsk tsk, with a mother like that, and Zhang Laowu who is so greedy and gloomy all the time, never caring about disciplining his children.
He thought that as long as he could bring in a lot of money for his son, ensuring he would never have to worry about food or clothing, he would be the best loving father he could be. It would be strange if his son didn't turn out bad.
As expected, Huang Hongmei took her chubby son to the children's parents' house to argue, "Our Baocai is such a good child. It's a blessing that your children have earned through eight lifetimes of good deeds to play with your children. Why can't you let your children play with our Baocai?"
The parents who were contacted were so angry they laughed. "We don't care about this kind of good fortune. Go find whoever you want!"
"No way! It's not like our Bao Cai thinks highly of your child, so your child has to play with us!"
Wow, Huang Hongmei is truly exceptional!
This time, the parents who were being rebuked were no longer just laughing in anger. Instead, they picked up a broom and started sweeping people away, yelling, "Get out! Get out of here! A man who would cheat and sell his own son and grandson, whose son is also useless, get out of here! From now on, I'll make sure your big fat boy stays away from our child!"
"Bullshit! The third son is clearly not my old man's biological son..."
"You stinking woman! What nonsense are you spouting?" Old Zhang, carrying a hoe, was passing by someone's door when he heard Huang Hongmei's voice.
Upon closer listening, he discovered that she was saying something she had no choice but to do, so he rushed over and kicked Huang Hongmei to the ground.
When Huang Hongmei saw that the person who came was Zhang Laowu, she didn't dare to utter a sound. She endured the pain and lay on the ground, not daring to move at all.
She wasn't really sure whether Zhang Jizhou was Zhang Laowu's biological son.
However, on one occasion, when Zhang Laowu got drunk, he uttered a few ambiguous words, and Huang Hongmei then prompted him to ask a few questions.
As a result, before she could even ask whether Zhang Jizhou was his biological son, Zhang Laowu fell asleep.
The next day, she tried to subtly get an answer, but instead, she was beaten up again by Zhang Laowu, who warned her, "You're not allowed to mention this matter again, or I'll beat you to death!"
Based on his attitude, as well as his attitude towards Zhang Jizhou and his wife, and Xiaoyuzai, Huang Hongmei guessed that Zhang Jizhou was very likely not Zhang Laowu's biological son.
Otherwise, even though they are both biological children, Zhang Laowu dotes on Bao Cai to the core, but treats Zhang Jizhou like the son of an enemy.
Although, to some extent, this was because he himself had instigated Zhang Laowu.
However, Huang Hongmei knew Zhang Laowu too well. If Zhang Jizhou were his biological son, if he liked Zhang Jizhou, he would never have treated Zhang Jizhou like this.
"Get back here now?!" Old Zhang roared angrily at Huang Hongmei, who was still lying on the ground.
Huang Hongmei knew very well that when she went back this time, she would definitely get a beating again.
But who could blame her when Zhang Laowu caught her saying those words?
Meanwhile, Huang Hongmei had just been called back by Zhang Laowu.
Over there, when Fang Yan finished selling her braised food and returned from the county town, Aunt De came to find her.
I told her what Huang Hongmei said when she went to settle accounts with someone today. "Huang Hongmei seemed to be saying that Lao San is not Zhang Lao Wu's biological son."
Although she hadn't finished speaking, it seemed she meant to say that the third son wasn't Zhang Laowu's child.
"Oh! Really?" Fang Yan was a little surprised and delighted that the surprise came so suddenly. "Then let's take some time to go to Changmi Village and ask my mother-in-law if she had any good male suitors before she got married?"
It seems like the investigation is going quite smoothly.
I just don't know if things will actually go as smoothly as I feel.
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